Relationship between Exposure to Household Humidifier Disinfectants and Risk of Lung Injury: A Family-Based Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In South Korea, a cluster of acute lung disease patients included lung injury disease suspected of being caused by the use of humidifier disinfectants.
Dong-Uk Park +16 more
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Mitochondria disease due to humidifier disinfectants: diagnostic criteria and its evidences. [PDF]
Environ Anal Health Toxicol, 2020 Humidifier disinfectant damages caused by the misuse of humidifier disinfects, such as polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG), resulted in chemical disasters in South Korea in 2011. About four million people were exposed to humidifier disinfectants (HDs) in the 17 years between 1994 and 2011.
Leem JH, Kim HC.
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Prenatal and Childhood Exposure to Humidifier Disinfectants and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Insights from a Retrospective Cohort Design [PDF]
ToxicsHumidifier disinfectants (HDs), also known toxic indoor chemicals, have been linked to adverse health outcomes in children. However, their association with ADHD development remains largely unexplored. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of ADHD
Hyowon Choi, Hunju Lee, Yeon-Soon Ahn
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Exposure to Humidifier Disinfectants Increases the Risk for Asthma in Children. [PDF]
Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2018 Yoon J +8 more
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Inhalation Lung Injury Associated with Humidifier Disinfectants in Adults. [PDF]
J Korean Med Sci, 2016 We recently established a novel disease entity presented as progressive respiratory failure associated with the inhalation of humidifier disinfectants. In April 2011, we encountered a series of peripartum patients with complaints of respiratory distress of unknown etiology, which was an uncommon phenomenon.
Huh JW +9 more
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COVID-19 in a Patient Previously Exposed to Toxic Disinfectant from a Humidifier [PDF]
Journal of Acute Care Surgery, 2022 In August, 2011, the Korean Public Health Surveillance declared an outbreak of pulmonary disease due to the inhalation of humidifier disinfectants (HDs), which led to approximately 20,000 deaths.
Seok Hwa Youn +3 more
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Use of Disinfectants and Cleaning Products Associated with Respiratory Disease: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public HealthIntroduction: there is extensive evidence on the harmful respiratory effects of exposure to disinfectants and cleaning products. Methodology: an exploratory systematic review was carried out in five databases: LILACS, PubMed, MEDLINE and BIREME.
Paula Andrea García Quinto +4 more
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Evidence integration on health damage for humidifier disinfectant exposure and legal presumption of causation [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2023 OBJECTIVES Inhalation exposure to humidifier disinfectants has resulted to various types of health damages in Korea. To determine the epidemiological correlation necessary for presuming the legal causation, we aimed to develop a method to synthesize the ...
Mina Ha +10 more
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Family-based case-control study of exposure to household humidifier disinfectants and risk of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 BackgroundIn Korea, several household humidifier disinfectants (HDs) were clinically confirmed to cause HD-associated lung injury (HDLI). Polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG) phosphate is the main ingredient of the HDs found to be associated with lung ...
Dirga Kumar Lamichhane +9 more
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Early-life exposure to humidifier disinfectant determines the prognosis of lung function in children [PDF]
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2019 Background Use of humidifier disinfectants (HD) at home leads to chemical airborne exposure, causing HD associated lung injury (HDLI) with high mortality. However, the lung function in children diagnosed with HDLI is not well studied. We investigated the
Hyun-Ju Cho +8 more
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